Blue Embrace: Albastru în Doi

By Daniela Cupşe

Daniela Cupșe’s poems take the reader into a deep realm, beyond the horizon, as is it is in fact poetry to which the author gives birth from the inner depth of her heart, of her soul, from the blue skies reflecting on the blue abyss of the ocean, sometimes stormy, other times tranquil. The blue embrace of two hearts, and the blues coming from profound, ensconced feelings of love and sadness, at times hidden, other times rebuffed, buried tumultuous or silent. Concealed feelings of a painful yet cherished love come to life in versus as "northern frozen grasses" where, in just three words, the reader can find a whole intensity of meanings, from the coldness and icy frozen north to the hope of grasses, albeit frozen, yet in anticipation of coming life.

The author is offering the reader the chance of taking a journey into the depths of ardor and despair, of her inner self, through rhetorically doubtful questions, playing with words, exposing her suffering, loneliness, desires, longing, in sublime expressions, unexpected combinations of words, inviting to guessing, to identifying oneself to the season of her heart. If the author' poems written originally in the romantic and musical Romanian language offer the reader an opportunity to immerse himself/herself in a world of reverie and introspection, it is fair to add that the translator's refined command of English matches the original Romanian version. These poems break down our daily routine and divulge our deepest sorrows we were so sure they were buried.

The reader is invited to stop for a few minutes to admire the front cover and then try putting together the picture and the title of the book, and find its disguised, elusive, thoughtful meaning, an embrace of two souls, rejecting or embracing the blues of some unspoken love, living parallel lives on parallel lines, yet converging in the infinite. Do parallel lines ever meet? Yes. In a Blue Embrace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: May 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781925939668

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Preface

In over half a century of cultural journalism, as a member of few literature festivals juries, and with tireless readings of whole poetry series, I had the chance of discovering some Romanian poets of the generations following World War II, who wondered me with a frisson of delight. Some obediently confirmed the test of time, others unfortunately got lost on the way. And, frankly, I was sorry.

The bizarre times came during and after the so called 1989 Revolution when the Romanian culture did pass and still does through literary vortexes, this Brownian movement is indeed baffling. Just when I thought this dangerous morass was about to take over, I realized ipso facto that I was part of a Revelation. It is exactly what happened to me when Daniela Cupşe (maiden name of Daniela Apostoaei) sent over the Atlantic to me her poetry series Blue Embrace, so I would be the curator and help publishing it - oh my God, what a small world the Planet Earth has become, as Marshall McLuhan said, a global village! - and surprised beyond belief I realized that I was holding in my hands the work of a poetess inspired by gods, yet so far hidden in a shell of an unjustified modesty, dedicating her carrier here and there to papers in Maramureş county, Romania, her birth place, and medieval town of Târgovişte - where we were colleagues for a while in the same Press Trust, thinking that I knew her, and yet I had no idea of her poetic grace - nowadays in the maple leaf country, province of Alberta, where she lives in an exile by choice.

All of a sudden, not long ago she decided to confront her poetic destiny and to accept it. As they say never say never, Daniela Cupşe asked me to give her a collegial viii

friendly hand and support her lyric public quest in which she dared to step into. I did not think twice and I did it as they say in Law with celerity - she is also a graduate of Law. I only did it after her poetry totally conquered me, her modern meta-phrasing writing being wrapped into a blue velvet of longing.

She is sapphic and engaged to a passionate and graceful erotism alike the ancient Bilitis, the love lyric of Daniela Cupşe remembers us of Mihai Eminescu’s magic feelings, her poetry being covered into an emotional aura of mystery. The Sunset was carrying the city on its hind / while you were drawing question marks on my temples / Then gingerly you polished a sizzling tear / framing it into a crying icon / So much that I wanted you to stay!... a calligraphy of persuasive surprise that is Daniela Cupşe. She is the One that comes. And like myself the readers will have the revelation. I take full responsibility and I announce on my own knowledge the